EVENING. People. QUOTES OF THE DAY.

`You might as well say that pornography should be judged...

February 15, 1996

`You might as well say that pornography should be judged by the worldwide community of pornographers.' -- Stephen Bates, of the Annenberg Washington Project, disagreeing with critics of a court's decision that communities can judge the obscenity of material downloaded from computer bulletin boards -- no matter where that board is based.

BILL CLAYTON, FORMER MANAGER OF HIV-POSITIVE BOXER TOMMY MORRISON: `I've never seen anyone to have women literally throw themselves at them like that. It's very difficult for a normal red-blooded American boy.'

`The joke is that in most towns, Domino's pizza have 12 toppings. Here they have 13.'

J.R. Moore, Franklin County sheriff's investigator, of the cannabis conspiracy in which a librarian would take marijuana orders from customers, fill the orders in the Belleville area, then help dole out the drugs on the weekend.

`It's shameful that an American citizen ... would cavort with dictators.'

Nicholas Burns, State Department spokesman, on Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's meeting with radical leaders of Libya, Iran and Iraq on his tour of Africa and the Middle East.

`It was the most incredible thing you could ever imagine because you knew you were going to die, but then it stopped just before you did.'

Mike Johnson, a freight car inspector inside the St. Paul train station when a runaway train crashed into the building.

`It's Black History Month, and they're trying to kill us. Why?'

A man identifying himself as Funky, an angry resident of a Patterson, N.J., housing project, reacting to Tuesday's shooting of an unarmed black man at the housing project by a white police officer.

`This case is not about abortion, but about insanity.'

J.W. Carney Jr., defense attorney for John Salvi III, acknowledging that his client was the gunman who killed two receptionists and injured five others in attacks on two abortion clinics in Brookline, Mass., in 1994.

`May God have mercy on your soul because I have none for you.'

Denton Ritchie, to his ex-wife, Therressa Jolynn Ritchie, after she was sentenced to 15 years to life behind bars for killing their 4-year-old daughter after the child caught her having sex with a neighbor. Therressa maintains her innocence.

`I'm an old lady now.'

Janet Evans, 24-year-old champion swimmer. She will compete in the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials against 15- to 17-year-old rivals.